CRD.A vs. SLQT, TWFG, WDH, GOCO, EHTH, RDZN, AIFU, ZBAO, HUIZ, and TIRX
Should you be buying Crawford & Company stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crawford & Company include SelectQuote (SLQT), TWFG (TWFG), Waterdrop (WDH), GoHealth (GOCO), eHealth (EHTH), Roadzen (RDZN), AIX (AIFU), Zhibao Technology (ZBAO), Huize (HUIZ), and Tian Ruixiang (TIRX). These companies are all part of the "insurance agents, brokers, & service" industry.
Crawford & Company vs.
Crawford & Company (NYSE:CRD.A) and SelectQuote (NYSE:SLQT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and profitability.
SelectQuote has a consensus target price of $4.50, suggesting a potential upside of 48.51%. Given SelectQuote's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SelectQuote is more favorable than Crawford & Company.
Crawford & Company has a net margin of 1.55% compared to SelectQuote's net margin of -3.45%. Crawford & Company's return on equity of 22.34% beat SelectQuote's return on equity.
22.6% of Crawford & Company shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.6% of SelectQuote shares are owned by institutional investors. 57.0% of Crawford & Company shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of SelectQuote shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Crawford & Company has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SelectQuote. SelectQuote is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crawford & Company, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, SelectQuote had 2 more articles in the media than Crawford & Company. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for SelectQuote and 0 mentions for Crawford & Company. SelectQuote's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Crawford & Company's score of 0.00 indicating that SelectQuote is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Crawford & Company has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SelectQuote has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Crawford & Company received 109 more outperform votes than SelectQuote when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.61% of users gave Crawford & Company an outperform vote while only 45.59% of users gave SelectQuote an outperform vote.
Summary
Crawford & Company beats SelectQuote on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:CRD.A) was last updated on 12/22/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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